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A disagreement about how to save the world–Part II

January 24, 2008 by Colin Beavan

The other week, I got in a goodhearted little email tiff with Michael Shellenberger, who as you know if you read this blog, is a co-author of Break Through: The Death of Environmentalism and the Politics of Possibility. Our email dialog turned out to be really interesting. In the first part exchange (which you can […]

Filed Under: Environment, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, No Impact Man Tagged With: climate change, economy, environment, global warming, happiness, industry, Michael Shellenberger

Pitting jobs against the environment

January 23, 2008 by Colin Beavan

I’ve been reading Heather Rogers’ excellent book Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage. In it, she points out that it has long been industry’s strategy to pit labor against what the industrialists say will be the negative economic consequences of reducing resource use to keep safe our planetary home. Rogers writes, “The common refrain–that […]

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, No Impact Man Tagged With: bottle bills, economy, environment, heather rogers, jobs, labor

Apropos, first, of nothing and, then, of something

January 8, 2008 by Colin Beavan

Apropos of nothing: The other night I was lying in bed, being held hostage by my daughter Isabella who insisted she would only go to sleep if I stayed there with her. She was mad that I had made her go to bed at all. She said, “I don’t like you anymore, Daddy.” So we’re […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man, Relationships, Family and Friendship, Society Tagged With: activism, endangered species, environment, icebergs, no impact man

The world’s simplest, best, most effective environmental living tip

December 20, 2007 by Colin Beavan

I was talking to a friend who said that the problem for the general public with environmental living is that it is so complicated. How do you know what stores to go to? How do you know what products are okay for the environment? How do cut through the green spin machine that is roaring […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: air pollution, environment, global warming, green living, greenhouse gas, toxins, waste, water pollution

Greening the planet by making green profits and creating green jobs

December 19, 2007 by Colin Beavan

One of the arguments against capping our greenhouse gas emissions is the effect it will have on the economy. Renewable resources cost more, hit the bottom line, mean less profit, and lower standards of living, the wrongheaded argument goes. Then there are the businesspeople who see the incredible opportunities in our crisis. It’s simply a […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man, Society Tagged With: bicycling, bikes, environment, green industry, green jobs

The garbage game

December 12, 2007 by Colin Beavan

Here’s a little fun: “What did you throw in a trash can today? You probably did not give it much thought. But this week New Yorkers threw away 64,000 tons of garbage. That comes out to almost 7 billion pounds of garbage every year. Whisking off the detritus of our daily lives costs the city more than […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: environment, garbage, solid waste management

NYT ethicist Randy Cohen on the ethics of transportation

November 28, 2007 by Colin Beavan

Thanks to Clarence Ekerson of StreetFilms for emailing me Open Planning Project Executive Director Mark Gorton’s interview with New York Times ethicist Randy Cohen. It’s about the ethics of transportation in New York City in particular and in big cities in general. During the interview, Cohen says (slightly paraphrased): Ethics is about the effects of […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: cars, environment, green living, Randy Cohen, transportation

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